I don't see that as easy to misinterpret. A dandelion has enormous beauty by its value is nonexistent. No matter how wonderful that dandelion is you aren't going to get paid much for it when you take it to market.
Interesting observations. I am just looking at this objectively and dispassionately. The minuscule value of an adjunct compared to the enormous value of a Noam Chomsky is not good or bad, it just is. It's a fact. This fact leads to an imbalance in pay. If you want to change that imbalance in pay you are creating something artificial. It is unnatural to pay adjuncts well.
I loved adjunct professors (hated TA's). Most of my adjuncts were people with tons of real world experience and note-worthy backgrounds who came in to teach a class, or a few per semester or a year, or whatever. Except for a couple, they were not nearly as insufferable as the tenured Phd. Of course, most of them got paid as well as or better than the tenured professors which they did not like so much.
(....actually they show up in salads at fancy restaurants who charge you a mint for their bowl of weeds. I just hope they washed the dog pee off them after their illegal immigrant busboy had to go to the park to pick them)
Value to the market at large. You might make the intelligent choice not to value Chomsky but you are in the minority.
I loved adjunct professors (hated TA's). Most of my adjuncts were people with tons of real world experience and note-worthy backgrounds who came in to teach a class, or a few per semester or a year, or whatever. Except for a couple, they were not nearly as insufferable as the tenured Phd. Of course, most of them got paid as well as or better than the tenured professors which they did not like so much.
This is really a comparison of apples and oranges.Who do you see as the "market" that values Chomsky?
Who do you see as the "market" that values Chomsky?
Why is the answer to this question not obvious?
I meant other than George Soros and the anti-American left.
I take back what I said earlier about you being anything like your namesake. You clearly have no interest in honesty. You are a deluded paranoiac. You are hereby dismissed with prejudice.
I accept your surrender on the issues.
The only reason why I am backing out is because I cannot recall a fruitful conversation with you.
The professors will still be able to get their insurance subsidized privately if they are truly low wage exploited down-trodden victims. Plus a lot of adjuncts do have other jobs.
The point is crudely made, but it is accurate. Subsidization of higher education has led to a glut of people who are over-educated in the humanities. Mind you, I"m one of them, and I had a blast and love learning.... but for many, it's sort of a trap. You get a degree in English, and what is there but to teach? (etc.)
Look, Diogenes, I agree with you. You're a lot like your namesake. But the truth is you can't find an honest man with a flashlight at the major universities. But that's what happens in a free market.
Chomsky is a fool but for good or ill he is famous. And that is a lot more valuable than all the brilliant and talented but obscure adjuncts in the world.
The point is crudely made, but it is accurate. Subsidization of higher education has led to a glut of people who are over-educated in the humanities. Mind you, I"m one of them, and I had a blast and love learning.... but for many, it's sort of a trap. You get a degree in English, and what is there but to teach? (etc.)
Hitler was famous. Was that valuable?
English teachers should not have it difficult for them to teach. There is a great market for them globally who need to learn English so as to communicate in the internationally recognized language.
Training in ESL (English as a second language) is very often required, though.
What a ridiculous thing to say. PhDs are cheap and plentiful and easily replaceable. If universities rely on them in large numbers that is just good business. They don't have to pay them well because the ones who don't like what they are paid can easily be replaced. You obviously do not understand or do not care to understand basic principles of supply and demand. You are the one who has lost all reality.
I'm not interested in joining into the value argument, as adjuncts do remarkable work and on the whole are not paid what they are worth.
I'm not interested in joining into the value argument, as adjuncts do remarkable work and on the whole are not paid what they are worth.
That said, as we begin talks here with administration concerning next year, this issue came up. They expressed that it now might be cost effective to hire full time faculty with full benefits. Neither full time faculty nor adjuncts here think hat is a bad idea.
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